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"Literature and theology are inextricably intertwined in this study of the figure of God as a literary character in the writings of John Milton"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Michael Lieb
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 17,55 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
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"Literature and theology are inextricably intertwined in this study of the figure of God as a literary character in the writings of John Milton"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Jason A. Kerr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,72 MB
Release : 2024-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198875088
This volume proposes a method for reading Milton's De Doctrina Christiana as an artifact of his process of theological thinking rather than as a repository of his doctrinal views. Jason A. Kerr argues that reading in this way involves attention to the complex material state of the manuscript along with Milton's varying modes of engagement with scripture and various theological interlocutors, and reveals that Milton's approach to theology underwent significant change in the course of his work on the treatise. Initially, Milton set out to use Ramist logic to organize scripture in a way that drew out its intrinsic doctrinal structure. This method had two unintended consequences: it drove Milton to an antitrinitarian understanding of the Son of God, and it obliged him to reflect on his own authority as an interpreter and to develop an ecclesiology capable of sifting divine truth from human error. Consequently, Milton's Theological Process explores the complex interplay between Milton's preconceived theological ideas and his willingness to change his mind as it develops through the layers of revision in the manuscript. Kerr concludes by considering Paradise Lost as a vehicle for Milton's further reflection on the foundations of theology--and by showing how even the epic presents challenges to the fruits of these reflections. Reading Milton theologically means more than working to ascertain his doctrinal views; it means attending critically to his messy process of evaluating and rethinking the doctrinal views to which his prior study had led him.
Author : Benjamin Myers
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,16 MB
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 3110919370
At the centre of John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost (1667) is a radical commitment to divine and human freedom. This study situates Paradise Lost within the context of post-Reformation theological controversy, and pursues the theological portrayal of freedom as it unfolds throughout the poem. The study identifies and explores the ways in which Milton is both continuous and discontinuous with the major post-Reformation traditions in his depiction of predestination, creation, free will, sin, and conversion. Milton’s deep commitment to freedom is shown to underlie his appropriation and creative transformation of a wide range of existing theological concepts.
Author : MARIAN HERBERT STUDLEY
Publisher :
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 14,91 MB
Release : 1923
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Page : 942 pages
File Size : 26,55 MB
Release : 1859
Category : Theology
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Author : John McClintock
Publisher :
Page : 1014 pages
File Size : 39,77 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Bible
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Author : John McClintock
Publisher :
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 24,99 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Bible
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Page : 542 pages
File Size : 42,63 MB
Release : 1948
Category : Theology
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Author : John Fletcher Hurst
Publisher :
Page : 1020 pages
File Size : 49,26 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Church history
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Author : Rosamund Paice
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,80 MB
Release : 2023-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000865843
This book is about the multiple loves of Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained: sanctioned loves and outlawed loves, sincere loves and false loves, Christian loves, classical loves, humanist loves, and love as emotion. In showing how these loves motivate the most significant actions of the Paradise epics, it reveals Milton to have made creative use of the tensions between philosophical ideals, social conventions, and the rather messier ways in which love emerges in practice. Love, so central to Milton’s view of Edenic joy and obedience to God, unsettles earthly and heavenly communities and is the origin of Miltonic transgression. Milton’s Loves sheds new light on some of the most prominent concerns of Milton scholarship, including why Milton’s God is so difficult for readers to connect to, Satan’s apparent heroism, Milton’s radical theology, and the nature of Milton’s muse. It is a book that will appeal to students and scholars of Milton and early modern studies more broadly and is structured in a way that will aid easy reference.